Overcoming inefficiencies arising due to the impact of the modifiable areal unit problem on single-aggregation disease maps

Overcoming inefficiencies arising due to the impact of the modifiable areal unit problem on single-aggregation disease maps

Abstract Background In disease mapping, fine-resolution spatial health data are routinely aggregated for various reasons, for example to protect privacy. Usually, such aggregation occurs only once, resulting in ‘single-aggregation disease maps’ whose representation of the underlying data depends on...

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Main Authors: Matthew Tuson, Matthew Yap, Mei Ruu Kok, Bryan Boruff, Kevin Murray, Alistair Vickery, Berwin A. Turlach, David Whyatt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-10-01
Series:International Journal of Health Geographics
Subjects:
Disease mapping
Modifiable areal unit problem
Single-aggregation disease maps
Zonation-dependence
Resource allocation efficiency
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12942-020-00236-y

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